Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vol. LIV: Augustini Epistulae Pars I

now the devil binds me with new nets, now proposing new obstacles, he surrounds me on all sides with seas and on all sides with the deep, now situated in the midst of the element, I neither wish to turn back nor am I able to proceed. It remains that by your prayer the breeze of the Holy Spirit may carry me forward and attend me to the port of the desired shore.

III.

TO RUFINUS.

1. That God bestows more than is asked, and often grants those things which "neither eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor have they entered into the heart of man," cf. 1 Corinthians 2:9 although I had previously known this from the teaching of the sacred volumes, yet in my own case

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